Cube, the provider of the universal semantic layer for every data app, announced it completed a $25 million funding round with new investor Databricks Ventures and was joined by all the previous investors, including Decibel, Bain Capital Ventures, Eniac Ventures, and 645 Ventures. And 645 Ventures Co-founder and Managing Partner Nnamdi Okike is now a board observer for Cube’s Board of Directors.
Cube Cloud is now installed on 90,000 servers and used by 4.9 million users. Twenty percent of Fortune 1000 companies use Cube. From 2023 to 2024, Cube saw 4x growth in new customers, 3x growth in average deal size, and 3x growth in bookings.
This $25 million funding round adds to the company’s $15.5 million most recent funding round in 2021. Including all rounds, the company has raised $48 million for delivering the leading universal semantic layer that unifies business logic, centralizes governance and security, optimizes query performance, and integrates with any data endpoint.
Cube is growing fast, driven by the needs of every organization to better manage the demand for data from BI tools, embedded analytics, chatbots, and LLMs. And the company’s universal semantic layer, Cube Cloud, works seamlessly with the modern data stack to bring a single source of truth to every data experience.
Cube will utilize the funding to strengthen go-to-market activities and advance Cube Cloud’s capabilities, including a roadmap full of new AI functionality.
Cube also recently announced seamless support for Microsoft BI solutions, making it easier for companies using Microsoft’s world-class cloud analytics solutions to build a universal semantic layer that serves the Microsoft ecosystem of tools as well as any other tools business units inevitably require. And the company also unveiled new intelligent capabilities to accelerate the development of AI and embedded analytics solutions, including AI API and chart prototyping for Cube Cloud.
KEY QUOTES:
“We look forward to further advancing Cube Cloud’s capabilities and reaching more companies struggling to create consistent data to fuel their BI tools, AI programs, and data apps. This funding will pave the way for us to help more companies bring consistency, context, and trust to all their analytics.”
- Artyom Keydunov, Co-founder and CEO of Cube
“Databricks and Cube are both working towards an intelligent, AI-enabled future. Cube has been a standout partner for Databricks and the Cube Cloud universal semantic layer complements what we offer customers with the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform. The semantic layer is critical to data intelligence and provides necessary context for AI agents to analyze data with higher accuracy. We’re thrilled to deepen our partnership with Cube and participate in this round as we continue to invest in the data and AI ecosystem.”
- Andrew Ferguson, VP, Databricks Ventures
“Cube team has demonstrated outstanding performance since we first invested in the company in 2020, and their growth has only accelerated in the past year. Cube is an emerging leader in providing software for the semantic layer that simplifies the data stack and enables a broad range of AI use cases for enterprises. We’re excited to continue to invest in the company and grow our partnership.”
- Nnamdi Okike, Managing Partner and Co-Founder of 645 Ventures and new board observer for Cube
